issue with free products in marketpress using Paypal Express

I have a product that I want to give away but still charge shipping for. When I set the product for $0.00 price and no shipping, MarketPress will use the 'manual payment' gateway and will automatically process the order. When I setup a $1.50 shipping price for the product using Paypal Express Checkout, I get the following error during checkout:

There was a problem connecting to PayPal to setup your purchase. Please try again.
10413 - Transaction refused because of an invalid argument. See additional error messages for details. - The totals of the cart item amounts do not match order amounts.

Any ideas on how to setup a free product with shipping using Paypal Express?

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That's a tricky one. Obviously, PayPal won't let you process a "free" item. I'll ask a couple of the devs if they have any ideas on this one. I ran a test and get the same error message back from paypal on my sandbox install. I think if you're going to do this you'll have to put shipping as the actual price and then not include any shipping...

I don't really follow what you are suggesting here. Some products actually have a price + shipping. This particular product has no price + shipping. I don't want to change the gateway In a way that only gives a total labeled "shipping" ... I want to make sure that the user knows that they are getting this one product "free with shipping". This seems like a bug, not a feature.

It's just not something we offer through our default gateways at this time. We'll look into it and if several members are asking for it - you can bet it'll be more of a priority. For now, if you're wanting this right away, I'd recommend requesting a quote for this over on the Job Boards here:https://premium.wpmudev.org/wpmu-jobs/new-project/

why should i pay to have something added that is already supported by most other ecommerce platforms? i'm already paying for MarketPress as a WPMU member, eh? given the ability to adjust a price for a product presupposes that we should be able to assign any price we wish, no?

I've tried using a 100% coupon... and it works... but the problem with that is that the coupon applies to all products, and not just individual products.

Please see my response above. I did not say we'd never add this - just that we don't currently offer it at the moment.

We're constantly adding new capabilities and features to the MarketPress plugin (some awesome stuff is about to be released shortly). If many users request this feature than it will definitely become a high-priority. I'm closing this thread, but if you'd like to post a request in the feedback and feature request forms, we can see if this is something other users are interested in as well.

Thanks!

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